Kasich: Rigged election claims are like saying we never landed on the moon

Donald Trump’s claims of a rigged election against him are nothing but a gag, John Kasich said Wednesday, dismissing the Republican presidential nominee's accusations as a “big, fat joke.”

The Ohio governor wrote off Trump’s unsubstantiated allegations that the presidential election is rigged as a silly but dangerous claim that’s about as ridiculous as the notion that the U.S. never landed on the moon.

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“No!” Kasich said emphatically when asked on “CBS This Morning” if the election is rigged.

“Look, to say that elections are rigged and all these votes are stolen, that’s like saying we never landed on the moon, frankly. That’s how silly it is,” added Kasich, who noted that his first statewide election was “extremely close.”

But it’s also dangerous rhetoric, he argued. “I don’t think that’s good for our country, for our democracy, and I don't believe that we have any massive fraud,” Kasich said. “One of my great friends here is the head of the board of elections. We don’t have that. That’s just a silly argument. The problem is it does create doubt in people’s minds, and I worry about 25 percent of Americans who may say when an election is over, it was stolen. That is a big, fat joke.”

Kasich reiterated that he will vote for neither Trump nor Hillary Clinton in November but joked that Charlie Rose or Norah O’Donnell could end up on his ballot.